#passive

Active Evil is better than Passive Good. ↗

— William Blake

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The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

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Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

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Love without sacrifice is like theft ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. ↗

— Courteney Cox

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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. ↗

— Bill Gates

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